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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org
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I'll start:

  • RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
  • XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
  • IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
  • Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
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[–] mormegil@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

uMatrix browser extension. It has been marked archived by Gorhill, last release is two years old, you are supposed to just use uBlock [Origin]. However, it still (luckily) works fine and is exactly what I want. (Sure, I won't install this for my parents.) The GUI to simply choose what you want the site to be allowed to do is perfect.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder if Gorhill could have avoided a lot of the nonsense bug reports by making uMatrix default to allowing everything, as if it was not installed at all.

[–] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Used it and it was good, as I remember. Later switched to uBlock Origin because it presumably uses less resources and does the job.